NUNEATON?S new ambulance station could be built at the town?s George Eliot Hospital....

NUNEATON?S new ambulance station could be built at the town?s George Eliot Hospital.

Councillors will be meeting next month to discuss a proposal to relocate the station - which is currently based in Newtown Road - to the hospital grounds.

If the application is approved work could start on the new base by Christmas of this year.

The proposal would mean transforming a car park, opposite the hospital?s catering department, and housing all ambulances and the depot close to the accident and emergency department.

Director of operations at the hospital, Duncan Phimister, said: ?It is land which is currently occupied. It does not belong to us - it is land owned by Eliot Park - but we have been using it as a car park.

?This proposal brings lots of services together and we were happy to agree to this application because it will be much better for all of the services.

?Its close location to the accident and emergency department will benefit people in the town and we are all partners in the health service so we should be working together.?

The access to the ambulance station will be from the hospital ring road on the A444.

Drawings have been put together and although the plans are still in the early stages, the work could be under way by the end of the year, or by January, of next year.

Members of Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council will be meeting on September 3, and it is hoped the application will be discussed then.

No one was available to confirm how much the new ambulance station would cost.